Muhammad Al-Munajjid was born 1960 in Aleppo, Syria. He is the founder of IslamQA.info and oversees the fatwas issued on the website. He follows the Hanbali jurisprudence and uses the basis of the salafi movement to answer questions on the website. The scholar has studied under many famous scholars such as Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baaz, Muhammad ibn al Uthaymeen, Abdullah Ibn Jibreen, Saleh Al-Fawzan and Abd ar-Rahmaan al-Baraak. He is the imam of the Umar ibn Abd al-'Aziz masjid in Al-Khobar of Saudi Arabia.